Member account terms

Who we are

Table42 is run by Tim Gelhard in the Netherlands. KVK: 86893416. VAT: NL004142601B69. The registered address and telephone number are on the About page. You can reach us at [email protected].

Table42 is for adults. You must be at least 18 to create an account.

What an account is

An account lets you write a profile and wait. That is the whole of it at this stage. It is not a membership, not a subscription, not a purchase, and not an entry ticket to a meetup.

You create the account yourself and confirm your email address. Until somebody at Table42 accepts you, the profile you write is visible to us and to nobody else — no other member sees it, and it appears in nothing.

What an account is not

Creating an account does not give you access, and we will not describe it as if it does.

• It is not a promise that you will be accepted.
• It is not a launch date. A city opens when there are enough accepted people and enough venues in it, and that is a separate decision from the one about you.
• It is not a promise of a meetup, of a particular person, or of a particular venue.
• It does not buy anything. Nothing on this website or in your account sells you a meetup ticket, and no price applies to you today.

How the decision is made

A person reads your profile and decides. Today that person is Tim Gelhard. There is no automated scoring and no algorithm that accepts or rejects you.

If you are accepted, your account is opened when your city opens, and we tell you. If you are not accepted, we tell you that too, with a reason, so you know what to change.

A rejection is not the end. You may fix what we named and apply again once. If the second attempt is also not enough, the account is closed and you are free to start again from scratch later.

What we look for is a real person who wants to meet another real person for an ordinary evening. We are not judging you on how interesting you sound.

What you tell us has to be true

The profile is the only thing we have to go on, so it has to be yours and it has to be accurate.

• Use your own identity, your own name and your own date of birth.
• One account per person. Do not create a second one to get around a decision.
• Do not write anything about somebody else that they have not agreed to.
• Keep it current. If your city or your circumstances change, change the profile.

What you write and upload stays yours

You keep ownership of everything you put into Table42. Your description, your interests, your photographs and anything else you write remain yours, and nothing here transfers them to us.

To run the service we need your permission to use them, so you give us a limited licence: the right to store what you upload, to show it to the people the service is built to show it to, and to make the ordinary technical copies that showing it requires, such as resizing a photograph so it loads on a phone.

That permission is limited on purpose.

• It exists only to run Table42. We may not use what you upload for advertising, for promoting Table42 to other people, or for anything outside the service, unless we ask you separately and you say yes.
• It is not exclusive. Your photographs and your words remain yours to use anywhere else.
• We may not sell it, hand it on, or give it to anybody except the providers who store and deliver it for us, and those are named in the privacy statement.
• It ends when you remove the content or delete your account. After that we stop showing it and delete it, apart from technical backups that expire on their own schedule and anything the law requires us to keep.

What you are promising us about what you upload

By uploading something you confirm it is yours to upload: that you took the photograph or have the right to use it, and that showing it does not break somebody else's rights.

Photographs of other people need their agreement. If somebody else is recognisable in a picture you upload, you need their permission, and you are the one who has to have it.

We may remove or hide something you uploaded if it breaks these terms or the community rules, if somebody reports it and we are checking, or if we are legally required to. We tell you when we do and why, and you can challenge it — the community rules say how.

The Table42 name, design, software and original content belong to Table42. Using the service gives you no right to them beyond using the service itself.

While you are waiting

An unapproved account can do two things: write its profile, and read the documents that apply to it. Everything else refuses, and it says so rather than pretending to work.

Photos are one of the things that refuses. You cannot upload one until you are accepted. That is a limitation of how we store photos safely today, not a judgement, and it means the person deciding about you is reading what you wrote rather than looking at your face.

How you behave once you are in

The community rules are part of these terms and you accept both together. They describe what is expected of you at a table and in the app, what suspends an account, and how to report someone. Read them before you accept.

Your data and your rights

The privacy statement says what we hold, why, for how long and who processes it for us. In short: while you wait, we hold your email address, what you wrote in your profile, your city, your language, the version of these documents you accepted and when, and whether you said yes to optional email.

The GDPR gives you rights over what we hold: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection. Beside those you can take back a permission you gave us, and you can complain about us to the Dutch data protection authority. Taking back a permission does not make what we did before you took it back unlawful. You can use any of them before you are accepted, while you wait, or after. Ask at [email protected], or use the pages in your account. We answer without undue delay and normally within one month.

Marketing email is a separate, optional choice you make at signup, and saying no to it costs you nothing and has no effect on the decision about your account. You can change your mind at any time.

Ending the account

You can delete your account at any time, for any reason, without telling us why. Deleting removes your profile; we say on the deletion page exactly what goes and what we have to keep.

We can suspend or close an account if the community rules are broken, if what you told us is untrue, if you are under 18, or if we are required to. Where it is fair to, we say what happened and you can reply.

If you never confirm your email address, the account is removed. It is not kept indefinitely just because it exists.

Money

There is nothing to pay today. No account is charged, no meetup ticket is for sale to you, and no price on this website applies to a member account.

If that changes, you will see the applicable terms and the actual price before you agree to anything or pay anything. We will not turn a free account into a paid one quietly, and we will not backdate a charge.

Changes to these terms

This is an early service and these terms will change, not least because they have not been reviewed yet. A material change is a new version with a new date, published here.

We show a new version and ask you to accept it before it applies to you. Continuing to use the account is not how we will treat you as having agreed to something materially different.

Responsibility, and what we cannot promise

Table42 introduces people who do not know each other and asks them to meet in a public venue. We cannot guarantee anybody's safety, we do not supervise a meetup, and we do not run the venue you sit in. Its rules, its staff and its own legal duties continue to apply to you as an ordinary guest.

We take reasonable care with the service, but it is early and it may be unavailable or wrong. Nothing here excludes responsibility that cannot legally be excluded, and nothing here limits mandatory rights you have under Dutch or EU law.

If something serious happens, tell us at [email protected]. In an emergency call 112 first; we are not an emergency service.

Dutch law and complaints

Dutch law applies to these terms. If you are a consumer, that does not take away mandatory protections in the country where you live. If something is unclear or you are unhappy, write to us first so we can try to fix it directly.